The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK6 using Free Software build tools, along with additional features such as a PulseAudio sound driver and support for alternative
virtual machines.

A new set of security releases is now available for IcedTea6, which uses OpenJDK6 as its base:

Full details of each release can be found below. For details of the 1.11.1 security release, see Omair’s e-mail.

*PLEASE NOTE*: With this release, the 1.8 series is now NO LONGER SUPPORTED. We strongly recommend that you upgrade to a new release series; either 1.9.13, 1.10.6 or 1.11.1 for OpenJDK6. Alternatively, make the jump to OpenJDK7 with 2.0.1 or the new 2.1.0 (to be released shortly).